Friday, March 2, 2018

A Mexican Security Guard and New Names.

02/05/2018


"Man! I am taking a picture of my haircut because I don't have any other pictures!" - Elder Roylance about 30 seconds ago while writing his weekly email. 
So we got haircuts today. 
I also went back to my roots to Pechersky and was reminiscing in the past in my memories of Elder Carr and trying to find the best burger in Kiev. When I was with him he said that the restaurant "The Burger" was the best in Kiev. In my opinion though the best is "Starburger". While Elder Carr was on his quest for the best burger I got to try lots of different places and today we decided to try one of those places again. 
This week was a pretty productive one here in the office. We got lots of projects done and are just chugging along. We made a huge pot of borsch for us to live off of for the next week or so. It is pretty darn good if I might say. We realized that what we have here is the perfect thing for any collage student. Borsch. The main ingredients are water and beats and all of the other ingredients are dirt cheep as well. It makes a ton and is super healthy. Cheep. High quantity. Healthy. What else would you want? Ramen? Yeah right. Don't tell me that after a long day of classes and home work that you will say "Man, you know what would be super awesome right now? A boring bowl of Ramen freaking noodles." On that note we found another nickname for Elder Roylance. Here in Ukraine our American last names are most of the time a little bit difficult to remember. So if someone can't remember your name they just use a word that sounds somewhat similar to it. For example. My last name is Класон (Klason) but if someone can't remember it they will call me either Классный (Cool) or Клаксон (a car horn). But that is pretty rare as my name is an easier one. But Roylance on the other hand. No one can ever get his name right unless they have been around him for a long time or are studying English. A new version we recently heard was Ролтон (Rolton) which is the most common brand of Ukraine's version of Roman noodles. 
Oh yeah. So here is some more news that you might find interesting. So remember how our mission is going to be gaining the L'viv mission? Yeah so now we will have them as well as all of Moldova. If you don't know what that is it is a small country that was part of the Soviet union in between Ukraine and Romania. So as of July 1st of this year the Ukraine Kyiv mission will be the Ukraine Kyiv Moldova Mission. Pretty crazy right? President Kumferman is slowly taking over all of eastern Europe. Maybe next week we'll get Belarus. 
This week I have been trying harder to let the Book of Mormon speak for itself. And because of that we have seen nothing but miracles because of that wonderful blue book. 
Yesterday right before sacrament meeting started in the Borschagovsky ward a man walked in with the Zone Leaders who looked exactly what you might think a member of the Mexican Mafia might look like. Big. Black hair. Handle bar mustache. Leather jacket. I was total expecting him to speak Spanish and not Russian. Apparently her is one of the security guards for the АТБ (a small grocery store) across the street from the Temple here. 
So it has been a pretty good week. 

Старейшина Класон / Elder Clawson

Here are some pictures.
The Temple at night.
Our before pic of our Borsch.
And some fancy cheese that Elder Roylance let me buy.








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